(larry is lawrence kasdan, who wrote the empire strikes back. jon is his son)

“Larry and I are both huge Coen brothers fans, and we talk a lot about that [relationship] as a reference,” Jon says, adding that they also turned to the far more serious Coen brothers drama Miller’s Crossing.

“[We were] trying to create a crime movie where our character was entering a crime world where there were already dramas in place and relationships and complications, and we have to see him negotiate a lot more rivalries than he is expecting at the beginning of the story,” Jon says.

“[Solo] has that flavor of a crime world that has weirdness and surprise and people stumbling into things — and other people very intentionally getting into [trouble],” he adds. “The Big Lebowski is a great example because Solo has a more off-kilter tone than you’ve ever seen in [Star Wars].”

my enthusiasm for the new star wars movies faded considerably once i gave the force awakens a second thought. but this news is

judging by the teaser trailer, and what the nuSW has produced under disney, i'd say the (by faaaar) biggest influences on the new solo movie are: a big steaming pile of utter shit designed by committee and a whole disregard and disrespect for the original, source material (and i say that as someone who has only a casual interest in the SW universe, i like the ideas more than the execution [even the original trilogy])